Health inequalities and welfare resources : : Continuity and change in Sweden / / ed. by Johan Fritzell, Olle Lundberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Berkman, Lisa,; Fritzell, Johan,; Hemström, Örjan,; Krantz, Gunilla,; Lennartsson, Carin,; Lundberg, Olle,; Modin, Bitte,; Roos, Eva,; Rostila, Mikael,; Toivanen, Susanna,; Yngwe, Monica Åberg,; Östberg, Viveca,
• HerausgeberIn: Fritzell, Johan,; Lundberg, Olle,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Health and Society
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

Foreword by Lisa Berkman, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University How welfare states influence population health and health inequalities has long been debated but less well tested by empirical research. This book presents new empirical evidence of the effects of Swedish welfare state structures and policies on the lives of Swedish citizens. The discussion, analysis and innovative theoretical approaches developed in the book have implications for health research and policy beyond Scandinavian borders. Drawing on a rich source of longitudinal data, the Swedish Level of Living Surveys (LNU), and other data, the authors shed light on a number of pertinent issues in health inequality research while at the same time showing how health inequalities have evolved in Sweden over several decades. Topics covered include how structural conditions relating to family, socio-economic conditions and the welfare state are important in producing health inequalities; how health inequalities change over the lifecourse and the impact of environment on health inequalities - at home, at school, in the workplace. Health inequalities and welfare resources will be invaluable to researchers, students and practitioners in sociology, social epidemiology, public health and social policy interested in the interplay between society and health.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Health, inequalities, welfare and resources -- Health and inequalities in Sweden: long and short-term perspectives -- Changing gender differences in musculoskeletal pain and psychological distress -- Life course inequalities: generations and social class -- Work stress and health: is the association moderated by sense of coherence? -- Psychosocial work environment and stress-related health complaints: an analysis of children’s and adolescents’ situation in school -- Assessing the contribution of relative deprivation to income differences in health -- Social capital and health in the Swedish welfare state -- ‘What’s marital status got to do with it?’: gender inequalities in economic resources, health and functional abilities among older adults -- Health inequalities and welfare resources: findings and forecasts -- References -- Index